>>102056441>All everyone talks about is what gimmick Murata has put into the chapter this time and he can't even keep the fucking pace.
Er, were you here when ONE's chapters were translated? It's not that Murata's art distracts people from actual discussion. It's just that we've already discussed it all.

>It's overdone and showy.
Here, we have to talk about whether or not Murata's style suits the story. If it doesn't, that is to say, if it doesn't add anything to it, then it IS overdone and showy.

Art is a part of execution. The style does not give the same effect as ONE's, but that isn't to say it does not fit the story well. ONE's art emphasizes how silly the world of OPM really is and helps bring to the spotlight the pretentiousness of the other heroes. Murata's, however, glorifies the abilities of the other heroes instead and instead emphasizes Saitama's own "underwhelming" existence (that is, until he gets "serious"). The moods both art styles provide for the comic are different, but they each provide an excellent contrast between the ideas of 'superheroes' and 'grounded reality'.

>>102056301>can't appreciate good art on the same story because 'x fanbase'
How about you start judging the material when you, you know, judge the material? Not somehow concluding it's guilty of being worse because the fans are? Because that's pretty fucking retarded.
If something is better drawn, even if it's the same thing it's obviously going to attract a wider audience. Doesn't make the whole 'simple comic simple punchline' thing any less valid because a retard was near you talking retarded shit about it.

Geluganshp was just a black octopus tentacle monster alien? I guess I should have expected that.

I just figured he was some weird formless creature, his form entirely fluid like a slime, but unlike a slime which is made of liquid his "body" was like a spacial anomaly. Like a dark energy being, or a warp creature or something. A piece of space come to life.

>>102056915>Not irrationally hating things out of spite for the sake of some vaguely defined fanbase or casuals
Welcome to /a/. What is this "judging something on its own merit" you speak of? The concept is entirely alien to us, and that means you must be a filthy cross boarder. Burn the witch! Kill the outsider!

>>102058156
Still, Boris was a solid 9/10 the first time. I was looking forward to him taking off the armor to fight Saimata. Now he's going to have some alien insertions my dick won't feel anything for. Crush ruined. Can't wait for this arc to end

Honestly, you're too vague. It lacks "soul"? Really now? Unbelievable. There's plenty of "soul" in the art. You can feel the effort put into it. It's dynamic and exciting to look at. The designs and imagery are thoughtfully done.

>>102060694
He's a very great imitator. He knows how things are supposed to be.

>>102060731
As you say he is good at what he does, good at creating illusion, good at anatomy. But that is all technical. In a sense, very mechanical in my views. Lacking in these traits, it's hard to to point it out stylistically and that's something he has been improving on. He is in a sense discovering his own sense of style without all the magic acts.

>>102061083
I never said he was bad. You could be the greatest person at anatomy and draw the very best, but that doesn't mean what you put out doesn't look like the shining glory of generic. Not to say that is necessarily the case. Is this really so difficult to understand?

>>102060954
He's technical, but I don't understand what that means in terms of him not having a personal style. His art is rather distinct and recognizable. Is that not what a personal style is? Something that be recognized as belonging to a person?

The way he shades. The way he draws the lines. The way he thickens or thins it depending on the feature or action. The little details that Murata makes that most artists would ignore or not put much effort to. There are lots of tics and personal touches to Murata's art.

>>102056441>Murata attracts all these faggots who try and pass OPM has the greatest thing ever and are slowly ruining it.

I see what you mean. Opm used to be a simplistic looking story with simple but fresh ideas on an overdone genre, but that is being completely overshadowed by murata's art into something that might look good but lost a lot of its "essence" that helped conveying ONE's message is what you're trying to say, right?

>>102063055
Not gonna touch that topic too much, but imo ONE's central point in all of his works is that "good storytelling and engaging characters" > "great art", so i could see how murata is turning that premise upside down in some people's eyes. There's no right or wrong in that, it's just people's preferences.

However, you gotta understand that most people are following murata's redraw literally only for his art (as much as I would agree that this is a stupid approach and not doing the manga justice), so criticizing said art would obviously get you a lot of hatred from their side.

>>102065920
to be fair, the only reason why we in the west ever even heard of OPM is due to Murata. Sometimes a good work, no matter the quality, needs a famous name to get some proper attention. Sure, from all the people who now know about One Punch Man 50% don't care about the webcomic, but the rest do, and that is a lot more than ever before.

Speaking as somebody who reads Murata's comic and not the original, it's not that I don't care about or dislike the original. I appreciate it for what it does, I just prefer the redraws and prefer to avoid spoilers.

>>102066197
Have you tried out the webcomic instead of just looking at one or two pages? Almost everyone agrees who gave it a chance that it's style has it's own charm. If you did and still prefer Muratas version, thats fine, but you are missing out heh

I read through one or two of the arcs, don't worry about that. I just like Murata's ake on it more. Also there were a few pages in the webcomic where I genuinely had trouble figuring out what was going on, though for the most part that wasn't an issue.

>>102061994>detail
But that's not what makes Murata's art great. He's good in detail, yes, but what he does is he make his work extremely cinematic he uses dynamic angles and poses, the kind of shots normally seen in movies and not in manga.

You could say that being a webcomic is what hurt Murata's style, because of how it introduced digital editing to his work, and how Murata draws the webcomic like you're looking through a television screen, whereas the published manga version that he redraws would look something like pic related.

I'm really interested in how the actual printed tanks look like compared to the webcomic because it sells so well for something that's technically free online.